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I know Aaron McGruder didn't work on this season, but is this really the final Boondocks season?

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Maybe. It looks like it at the moment.

Well, its been almost four years since the last new episode, but The Boondocks finally returns with new episodes. As you may have heard, show creator Aaron McGruder won't be involved in this season. This is also apparently the final season for the show. Luckily, we get 20 episodes this season, instead of the usual 15. What changes are in store for this season? Tune in at 10:30 PM Eastern to find out.

Episode 4.01:"Pretty Boy Flizzy"

Pretty Boy Flizzy is arrested for armed robbery while in town, and Tom agrees to be his lawyer.

Great/hilarious episode which is a rehash of the Tom,Sarah,and Usher episode, but more better than it, I'll be enjoying both The Boondocks season 4/Rick and Morty, welcome back The Boondocks,

The highlights:

Huey is the best awesome voice of reason.
Both Riley, Granddad(Robert), Sarah, Uncle Ruckus, Ed Wuncler, Sr., Cindy, and Colonel H. Stinkmeaner are my favorite obnoxious jerkholes.
Pretty Boy Flizzy being a Chris Brown reference.
Both Tom/Sarah getting major roles in the episode, sweet.
Nice to see Uncle Ruckus who's hilarious, hahahahahahaha.
Sarah being a terrible jerkette/witch wife for poor Tom like always.
Tom kicking both Granddad(Robert)/Sarah's butts after his Crowning Moment of Awesome from A Date With The Booty Warrior was sweet, go Tom, Tom the best buttmonkey character to stand up/fight back, I hope Tom kicks Riley's butt too further episodes.
The facial animation did looked wrong there.
Pretty Boy's plan to make Tom reunite with Sarah, nice.
Sarah apologizing to Tom was nice.

Next episode preview - A money problems episode and Uncle Ruckus's major focus, sweet.
A shame Aaron McGruder is gone from the show and I'll be sad that Caesar(Huey's best friend) doesn't show up in the show.

I thought that this episode was better than "Tom, Sarah and Usher", honestly. Didn't seem nearly as mean spirited this time around. Tom is finally starting to develop a backbone. We'll have to see how long that lasts. In addition, we also get to see Sarah for more than 3 minutes of the episode. Also a plus.

But man, Aaron Macgruder's created by credit is removed form the shows' opening title sequence. I read that he wasn't involved with this season's production, but that really says it.

Has word come out as to why? Did he get fired because he was dragging his feet on this season for too long?

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Sony's official answer was "a mutually agreeable production schedule [with McGruder] could not be determined." So yeah, pretty much. Though it's worth noting that even for Season 3, Sony specifically told Aaron to not call it the final season, and Aaron said neither Sony or Cartoon Network were the reason the show was ending, and that it was instead due to him. Along with that we have him producing two live-action pilots for Adult Swim during the period season 4 production work should have already been underway, and it's fair to say Aaron likely didn't want to continue the show and was torn between it and his new live action Black Jesus show airing this year.

By the way, he posted a statement a month back about leaving the show behind on it's final season.

As the world now knows, The Boondocks will be returning for a fourth season, but I will not be returning with it. I’d like to extend my gratitude to Sony and Adult Swim for three great seasons.

I created The Boondocks two decades ago in college, did the daily comic for six years, and was showrunner on the animated series for the first three seasons. The Boondocks pretty much represents my life’s work to this point. Huey, Riley, and Granddad are not just property to me. They are my fictional blood relatives. Nothing is more painful than to leave them behind.

To quote a great white man, “Hollywood is a business”. And to quote another great white man, “Don’t hold grudges”.

What has never been lost on me is the enormous responsibility that came with The Boondocks - particularly the television show and it’s relatively young audience. It was important to offend, but equally important to offend for the right reasons. For three seasons I personally navigated this show through the minefields of controversy. It was not perfect. And it definitely was not quick. But it was always done with a keen sense of duty, history, culture, and love. Anything less would have been simply unacceptable.

As for me, I’m finally putting a life of controversy and troublemaking behind me with my upcoming Adult Swim show, BLACK JESUS.

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And we have Angela Nissel and Meghann Collins listed as two new "Consulting Producers" of the series, with Angela writing this episode. the next episode to air, featuring the Freeman's in debt in a Breaking Bad parody, actually doesn't have a writing credit at all. Oh, and for anyone curious about Caesar, Huey's best friend in the comic, showing up, he won't. Jon Jackson recently posted on the Adult Swim forum that he makes no appearance.